As we continue moving forward on the forward and midship bronze floor timbers, we are kindly interrupted by a friend of ours who plays us a cover of 'Boats to ...

We've all been looking forward to getting to work on the bronze floors but before we can do so, we had a bit more cleaning up to do in order to finish up with ...

Well, it's tax time again! Perfect timing for us to go over our finances for the project before we ramp up to a change to weekly videos. Just like last year, ...

Well, it's finally time to say goodbye to Victoria. We got her knowing she was going to be a parts boat but was still the first boat we ever owned. Feels a ...

Floor timbers are a critically important structural member in wooden boats. As we've been building Arabella, there have been many decisions so far in terms of ...

We've been going for three years straight now. At first we were working full time jobs and building on nights and weekends to support ourselves and pay for ...

Milling our planking stock out of our donated cedar and working on figuring out our bronze floor timbers! Buckle up because there is a lot of information ...

This episode is a little bit different but many of you have been asking about it. Our watermaker brand is The Watermaker Man and it was installed in Australia ...

According to the charts the water around Bora Bora were to shallow for us but we wanted to go to the other side to snorkel so we tried anyway.The tiny passage ...

After having stripped Victoria of her interior, we now move on to disassembling her hull by removing her cockpit, aft deck and then her rudder. Almost all of ...

Ahoy, my stay in Guaymas was only for a few days. Long enough to speak to the boatyard and catch up with some friends. And then I set sails to cross the Sea of ...

We are full of $H!t ! With parasites to hunt us down and a broken head (toilet) the fun never ends. Full discloser on how to tradicionaly cure the little ...

What is the soul of an old boat? We believe it has to do with all the people she has touched and the journeys they have experienced. All this shows in every ...

All the frames are steamed in! AND we got donated a TON of white cedar! We have been thinking about our planking material since we started and were ...

As we steam in Arabella's frames we have now reached the aft section of the build and need to cut the rabbet up the sides of the stern posts to determine where ...

Last couple of days on the boat before we give it back. We run into one problem after another, Ben asks Alie if she could cross an ocean.

Arabella has 70 frames. That's a fair amount of steaming. So, we thought it would be interesting to show what a full day of steaming looks like. Not to ...

Yep, we are making our own square shanked copper rivets for Arabella. Not only are they bigger than the biggest commercially available rivet we could find, it ...

Maria and I left the pretty Rio San Andrés to head over to Vista Mar Marina to reunite with SV Joana. We encountered some dolphins and some whales along the ...

Winter is coming and there is always something to do. We worked on getting Victoria buttoned up for the winter and hosted a middle school class for a field ...

We finally start heading north and get the sails out, but half way through we are stopped and boarded by the French Coast Guard! Huge THANKS to our Patrons ...

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Before the bent frames can be permanently fastened in place they need a final inspection, a coat of oil and their respective socket cleaned up and sealed. We ...

Want to make power from nothing? Well, that's impossible, but you can build your own alternator that to make power from wind, moving water or most anything ...